Healing with Nature

"Opening The Book of
Fay is like opening the gate to a garden I have never seen before but
finding it strangely familiar. Spending time there allows me to see the
landscape of my life in a different way."Claire Parent

When John Veltheim
asked me to participate in the Learning Forum next February in Dallas and teach
a 2-day workshop based on the images in my book, The Book of Fay, I was
thrilled to say the least. For me it was
this invitation was true validation of what BodyTalk can do.

Until quite
recently John knew for a fact - having worked on my brain on several
occasions- that although I had an
amazing ability to bring in new information, he had seen how parts of my brain
were not communicating with one another. This made it extremely hard for me to
try and express my visions and insights in a cohesive manner.

In August 2002 I
saw an advertisement about BodyTalk in an acupuncture magazine. I knew
instantly that I needed to study BodyTalk. It changed my life. I went to study PaRama
BodyTalk and everything I had been struggling to achieve for so long began to
fall into place. That was a turning point in
my life.

Some of you reading
this may be BodyTalk practitioners and some may not. You don't have to be a
Certified BodyTalk Practitioner to benefit from this course, but if you are, there is a great advantage as you will be able
to use the images as a powerful resource in your sessions. More importantly,
whatever your background, this class has the potential of transforming your
experience of yourself and life.

In my book, The Book of Fay, I have composed a series of
photographs of nature. As you can see from this excerpted plate from my book,
nature is portrayed in a very unique way. If you let your eyes focus gently,
you will soon find that you are drawn to one
specific aspectof the picture. The mind
becomes quiet and your senses are heightened. Then, rather like Alice in
Wonderland, you might find yourself being drawn in, as if through a portal.
This gives you a tiny glimpse into the potential of working with The Book of Fay.

In this 2-day
interactive workshop we will use the powerful images from The Book of Fay as portals to access a deeper
understanding of the mirroring aspects of nature within the self. We will discover how to connect with the
5 basic elements in nature; earth, water, fire, air and space. In this way we
will begin to 'internalize' their
healing and transformative qualities. In essence, we will be reaching the
'invisible' through the 'visible'.

"In healing with nature we
reach the invisible through the visible."

Our focus will be
on learning how to decipher the information we receive through the images. In
this way, using nature as a portal into the psyche, we will be learning how to
transform our experience of self and life in ways you have never before
imagined.

"I love The
Book of Fay and live with it. The images in Monique's book are assisting me
in healing from a long term relationship and in finding more and more of
myself. I do let the images find me. When I picked 'The veil of Wisdom' I was
aware that I wasn't seeing clearly. I looked... and eventually I heard: The
heart's role is to unify, embrace, accept, intuit- sense the truth of the
moment, feel, forgive, rest and NOT know- surrendering to trusting.... The portal
finally opened up."Gabi Barysh-Crosbie

Working with the images
in The Book of Fay is not just about seeing
beautiful pictures. Our focus is going to be very different to the usual form
of looking and seeing. Instead, we will be seeing into the images in a way that
triggers all the other senses. Some peoplewhen
working with the images experience feeling and smelling them.

The images in The Book of Fay evoke a response from the deepest
levels of the psyche. This visceral experience helps you to clarify whatever
has been triggered at that deep level. Roberto Cortez, a young innovative chef
who took my class, discovered while looking at 'The Key Holder', that he could
actually tell me what the image tasted like.

"The Book of Fay provides personal insights through
evocative imagery. This is an example of how I used the image of Rahu:Rahu leaps beyond the page to burn away the
underbrush of old and make way for a fresh start, or for new beginnings. Only
from the heat of fire can the seedlings emerge. See Rahu's third eye and know
you already have the answers. His perky ears remind us to listen to our
inner-selves and the world around us. Rahu, at first menacing in appearance,
becomes comforting in his message."Christine Kelley-Buchanan